The author details ways in which the vocational, technical, and adult education system can keep up with the aging of the student population. She states that data must be gathered and new training policies developed if vocational education is to address the needs of its older students. Wisconsin's work on this project is described. (Author/CH)

The author presents a method for developing a marketing plan. She applies this method to marketing vocational education, covering such areas as (1) audience, (2) product, (3) message, (4) communicating the message, and (5) evaluation. (CH)

Since 1979, the Education Information Network in the European Community (EURYDICE) has been conducting seminars designed to improve understanding of the different educational systems of the member states and to facilitate network cooperation. The papers in this document were given by speakers both from the Irish Department of Education and other…

The United Republic of Tanzania was perhaps the first African country to give urgent attention to adult literacy. One of the immediate results of educating adults was to make them insist that schooling be provided for their children. The literacy campaign that started in 1971 reduced the 1969 illiteracy rate of 69 percent to 9.6 percent in 1986.…

One of the reasons for the rapid advancement of literacy activities in Ethiopia is that different nationalities learn in their own mother tongues in their own cultures. The literacy rate before the 1974 revolution was 7 percent. The 1990 literacy rate is 75 percent. Literacy instructors in the current literacy campaign do more than instruct…